Arizona silver belt., 1887-09-24
rmn ELnenAso y olI AassosA.

gssE ELE0MAN9 M 0F AAtkoNA
A short time since WE received an
inquiry from New York about The
Tortilita Gold and silgeF Mining Com.
pany of pinat county. Tae name Il
certainly Impressive, suggesting fabr-
lous wealth, but We were compelled 10
plead ignorance Of the existence Of tho
dozen rich mines which Il was saidthe
company owned. a lew days later d
letter came to hand from the president
Of the company, Offering rs stock IN
the bonanza for space in our adyertis
ing columns. aud generously consent
ca to Iet as IN on the ground apor-
$2 per share. Accompanying Tie let
ter was copy OF tho Hartford Eve.
ming Post, the hrst page Of which Is
entirely taken up with a description
and map of these wonderful mines,
Weare always pleased TO yet all
the information attainabis about Ari-
zonas mineral wealth and discriminate
ths news ia order To accelerate the
boom, II struck Us as peculiar that
the Tucson papers and the Riefence
Enterprise, always ready 70 publish
everything tending 10 advance Che IN.
terest of fhe districts adjacent to them,
had DOT given extended publicity 10
these fabulous mines. Seeing that
they are SO direlict, for the benefit of
the country, and investors abroad, we
reproduce from the Hartford Post a
partial description 81 the property in
question.
Tho twelve gold and silver claims
belonging to Tie Tortilisa company
sic located in the Tortillta mountains,
Owls Head District, Pinal county.
thirty. .fonr miles northwest Of Tucson,
Al well known gentlemsn, ian expert
/ in mining enterprises, who visited
tie Tortilita mines for bis own grati-
aeationa was greatly impressed with
them, iii the BY Chanesclaim be says
1ore il uncovered for a distance d
several hundred feet. eve went
down an ineline for thirty feet aud
there a great wall Of ore and q true
6ssure vein was disclosed 10 me,
From this point / went thgeugh 8 tun-
nel and was shown large bodies of ore
above ms. We then returned and
weal down Gfty feet further ana there
measured i breast Of ore fortg-two and
q half feet WIDE, from WHICH / toak
samples 70 tie nill and saw worked
gielding an average If City dollars
psr ton. A number ofoth-
er claims belonging I'd the Tortilita
company, are spoken Of ~ being AZ
most as valuable As The isy GlEanee
Mining superintendents and bosses
hare usually u sccreiiye b. clams, but
those ii charge oftbe Tcrtilita mines
are extremely obiiging j GYMS in-
formation. 1hc superintendent i
credited with saying tbat tthe Iorti-
Has are the greatest and best ~ then
class the class nor gwen on the Anle.
rican coutinent The foreman ef tbe
By Chance Is positive that ',the Torti-
litas will prove The Bess mines ever
discovered % the Pacific Coast. The
superintendent Il reported al saying
fnrther "We can easily supply taree
twenty stamp mills FOR an indefinite
period On these properties. They
woald work $50 tons 81 ore per day, al
an average Of $50 per ton An i low
estimate Tbs would be 5000 Per day.
aWith the proper machinery this can
be worked at an expense Of sac per
ton. which would 30 Sl,so0 per day,
leaving net per day 81 200, or tot thir.
ty days s2le 900, or for year S2 5a2s
900, whiah viii be over two and d ball
times our capital stock each year, bnt
al FIRST We shall start with twenty.
stamp mill which should give Vi
$500 900 per year net or SO PER cent
per annnm IN our capital stoek. AN
row bending every effort toward at
tanning these results.
We havs d faint recollection of ar
enterprise with unlimited capital
known AZ The Bonanza Mining Com.
pany that uaaertook 10 develop mines
III tho QuJotoa District NV trust
Toriilitas MIR surpass those noted
mines iii the payment III dividends.
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The Snpreme Court Of Illinois rnan.